Liz Silverman
Overview
1
1
Certification
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder & Clinical Director
Silverman Psychotherapy
01.2022 - Current
- Established comprehensive psychotherapy services tailored to diverse client needs including IFS, DBT, AEDP, and Narrative Therapy.
- Provide weekly clinical supervision to all employed psychotherapists.
- Collaborated with mental health professionals to ensure integrated care approaches.
- Conducted workshops and training sessions for staff on best therapeutic practices.
- Streamlined operational processes to increase clinic efficiency and service delivery.
- Fostered a supportive environment promoting client confidentiality and trust.
- Utilized electronic health record systems for accurate documentation and reporting.
- Evaluate treatment plans and supervise documentation procedures
Clinical Supervisor
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Delivered evidence-based and gender-affirming mental health care in a medical setting for adolescents and young adults living with HIV or identifying as LGBTQ+
- Provided clinical supervision for team of case managers and mental health providers
- Evaluated treatment plans, led case conceptualizations and case conferences
- Supervised workflows and documentation
Research Associate
NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
01.2016 - 01.2020
- Senior interventionist for NIH funded R01, “Using MOST to optimize an HIV care continuum intervention for vulnerable populations”
- Design, develop, implement, and supervise peer mentor program
- Oversee participant recruitment and retention activities
- Conduct intervention activities, including motivational interviewing sessions
- Collaborate with HIV/AIDS community organizations and develop Community Advisory Board
- Provide intervention-related supervision and monitoring on fidelity to the intervention manual and protocol, in conjunction with the Project Director
- Perform quality assurance duties including listening to and rating intervention sessions for fidelity, and reviewing session QA forms
Psychotherapist
Interborough Developmental & Consultation Center
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Weekly and bi-weekly psychotherapy sessions with adults and adolescents
- Provide timely and comprehensive session notes
- Participate in weekly supervision
- Conduct collateral contacts with family members, school counselors, ACS workers, case workers, and psychiatrists
- Follow policies and procedures related to emergencies, referrals, and record keeping
Social Work Intern
Harlem Hospital Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
01.2015 - 01.2015
- Conduct biopsychosocial assessments and complete medical case notes for all patient interactions
- Collaborate with psychiatrists for diagnoses and appropriate treatments
- Provide brief psychotherapy including crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, CBT, and psychosocial education
Social Work Intern
Housing Works Job Training Program
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Provide weekly cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic therapy to ten clients
- Facilitate weekly support groups
- Address any barriers to full time employment (physical health, mental health, substance use)
- Complete high quality case notes for all assessments, therapy, and case management
Research Coordinator & Interventionist
NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Deliver motivational interviewing intervention sessions for people living with HIV
- Participant recruitment, enrollment and follow up for people living with HIV
- Data collection and management
- Hire, train, and supervise research assistants, consultants, and interventionists
- HIV testing and counseling
- Health navigation and case management for people living with HIV
- Qualitative interviewing, data coding, and analysis
- Coordinate venue based sampling to ensure adherence to study protocol, supervise staff, recruit participants, collect data, and provide HIV testing and consulting
Public Health Program Coordinator
Village Hopecore International- Kenya
01.2010 - 01.2011
- Responsible for overall coordination of community health activities including trainings, mobile clinic, home health visits, patient advocacy, community outreach, monitoring, evaluating, data collection, and reporting
- Designed, funded, and implemented a youth peer educator HIV/STD prevention program and a school-based mobile clinic program
- Supervision of program staff including Community Health Nurses, Community Health Workers, volunteers and interns
Education
Master of Social Work - Clinical Practice with Individuals Families and Groups
Hunter College, CUNY
01-2016
Master of Public Health - Community Health Sciences Department
University of California, Los Angeles
01-2009
Affiliations
- Movement Counselors Network, Advisory Board, 2025-present
- Free Clinic NYC, Choreography Working Group, 2025-present
Certification
- Expanding Psychoanalytic Practice in Communities, American PsA Association, 2025-2026
- AEDP for Trauma and Attachment Wounds, PESI, 2024
- Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, 2018-2022
- Basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Beck Institute, 2017
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Certification Training, PESI, 2017
Recent Publications
- Cluesman, S. R., Gwadz, M., Freeman, R., Collins, L. M., Cleland, C. M., Wilton, L. Silverman, E. & Ory, S. (2023). Exploring behavioral intervention components for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV with non-suppressed HIV viral load in the United States: a qualitative study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 22(1), 22.
- Gwadz, M., Cleland, C. M., Lizardo, M., Hawkins, R. L., Bangser, G., Parameswaran, L., ... & Silverman, E. (2022). Using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework to optimize an intervention to increase COVID-19 testing for Black and Latino/Hispanic frontline essential workers: A study protocol. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1235.
- Gwadz, M., Cluesman, S. R., Freeman, R., Collins, L. M., Dorsen, C., Hawkins, R. L., Silverman, E. ... & Kutnick, A. (2022). Advancing behavioral interventions for African American/Black and Latino persons living with HIV using a new conceptual model that integrates critical race theory, harm reduction, and self-determination theory: a qualitative exploratory study. International Journal for Equity in Health, 21(1), 97.
- Freeman, R., Gwadz, M., Wilton, L., Collins, L. M., Dorsen, C., Hawkins, R. L., Silverman, E., ... & Cluesman, S. (2020). Understanding long-term HIV survivorship among African American/Black and Latinx persons living with HIV in the United States: a qualitative exploration through the lens of symbolic violence. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19(1), 146.
- Freeman, R., Gwadz, M. V., Silverman, E., Kutnick, A., Leonard, N. R., Ritchie, A. S., ... & Martinez, B. Y. (2017). Critical race theory as a tool for understanding poor engagement along the HIV care continuum among African American/Black and Hispanic persons living with HIV in the United States: a qualitative exploration. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16(1), 54.
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant, UCLA School of Public Health, Masters-level Course: Program Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciences, 2010-2011
- Guest Lecturer, CUNY John Jay College, Drug Use and Drug Policy, 2016
Timeline
Founder & Clinical Director
Silverman Psychotherapy
01.2022 - Current
Clinical Supervisor
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
01.2020 - 01.2022
Research Associate
NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
01.2016 - 01.2020
Psychotherapist
Interborough Developmental & Consultation Center
01.2016 - 01.2018
Social Work Intern
Harlem Hospital Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program
01.2015 - 01.2015
Social Work Intern
Housing Works Job Training Program
01.2014 - 01.2015
Research Coordinator & Interventionist
NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
01.2011 - 01.2014
Public Health Program Coordinator
Village Hopecore International- Kenya
01.2010 - 01.2011
Master of Social Work - Clinical Practice with Individuals Families and Groups
Hunter College, CUNY
Master of Public Health - Community Health Sciences Department
University of California, Los Angeles